WarRoom Battleground EP 309: Standing Up For Family And Christ
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Summary
Pat Robertson was a seminal figure of the religious right. He founded the Christian Broadcasting Network, the Christian Coalition, and the Christian College Regent University. He was also known for his outspoken views on homosexuality, feminism, and a host of other hot button issues.
Transcript
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If you continue to look the other way and shut up,
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It's another element that backs them into a quarter
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This is why this audience is going to have to get engaged.
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An influential conservative Christian broadcaster,
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Let's take a look back at his life with our Stephanie Inland.
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Pat Robertson was a seminal figure of the religious right.
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But he was also known for his outspoken views on homosexuality,
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There isn't one single civilization that has survived
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In 2001, he agreed with fellow televangelist Jerry Falwell
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that God allowed the 9-11 terrorists to succeed
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The Yale Law School graduate and Korean War vet
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He bought a bankrupt local station in Portsmouth, Virginia,
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and it became the first outlet for the Christian Broadcast Network.
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It was the first Christian TV network in the U.S.
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and became one of the world's largest TV ministries.
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Its flagship program was the daily show he hosted,
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named for the 700 donors who launched it in 1961.
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I plan to make a formal announcement of my candidacy
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for the Republican nomination for the presidency of the United States.
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Robertson, whose father was a congressman and U.S. senator,
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ran as a Republican presidential candidate in 1988.
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but his campaign didn't fare as well in other primary states.
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He dropped out of the race and returned to hosting the 700 Club,
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where he famously made bold predictions that didn't always come true.
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a key founder of the conservative Christian movement
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who never shied away from expressing his views,
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It is Thursday, 8 June, Year of the Lord, 2023.
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this great university down in Lynchburg, Virginia,
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and Dr. Pat Robertson in Virginia Beach, Virginia, Regent University.
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left these great, great, powerful institutions.
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And, you know, the mainstream media mocks Jerry Falwell,
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but you look at a lot of the predictions they made,
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particularly as society spins more and more and more out of control.
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And I got to tell you, it's absolutely stunning.
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an anti-government group by the Southern Poverty Law Center.
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You saw the fathers in, the Armenian fathers in what,
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as you're going to commemorate the death of your founder
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and the owner of the Brooklyn Dodgers moved to Los Angeles
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and the great teams ahead, always family-oriented.
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Chavez Ravine is the third oldest baseball stadium.
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will honor the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence.
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They blaspheme the largest voter bloc in the nation,
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how 200 LGBT groups just recently signed a petition
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So we have a number of groups that have come together.
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I mean, there's Jewish groups that are coming to a right
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because they recognize this is not just a Christian,
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will be there on the ground to lead us in prayer.
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throughout the Catholic world for traditional Catholics.
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I imagine the largest archdiocese in the country
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and there was some other Protestant members there as well.
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So you're going to have an event at the cathedral,
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She's a product of the archdiocese of Los Angeles.